Politico Books: The Right Fights Back and Inside The Circus

I am a big fan of the Politico website. Each morning I read the Politico Playbook and consider a must read site daily. Between that and the Daily Notes entries on The New Yorker website, as well as the previously discussed Real Clear Politics I get my morning fixes early in the day.

Politico has launched a projected series of four instant books. Rather than wait until the year after an election to publish a book with the inside details on an election they plan to issue every couple of months a book outlining the election and the players involved.

The Right Fights Back told of the beginning stages of the campaign while Inside the Circus took us right up through the Wisconsin primary. So these books are current.

For me, however, they were not worth a great deal. Now I realize that most people do not follow politics that closely and certainly do not read the sites I read daily. That said these books are for political junkies. The target audience for these books would be people who do keep up with news, and therefore most of the information in these books is repetitious.

Now they only cost $2.99 each so if any information is gleamed at all it is worthwhile. The formatting however is poor, there are no chapters. It is really just a series of notes and paragraphs.

Politico has really done nothing with these books to expand their audience.

Love the site, but i will have no plans to read the next two books in the series.